Subject: [TS] Re: New PalmOS release: 0.4.2
From: Christer Enfors (enfors@kar.fdata.se)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 10:28:19 EST
Ben Darnell <bgdarnel@unity.ncsu.edu> writes:
> > > ThoughtStream 0.4.2 for PalmOS is now available. This release is
> > > basically an accumulation of small fixes. The desktop component has not
> > > been changed; 20000108 is still the latest version.
> >
> > This is starting to look more and more promising. However, I know of
> > atleast one serious bug that remains in this version:
> >
> > 1. I create my mind.
> > 2. I create a child link (create new idea)
> > 3. When at that idea, I tap the "H" button without having set my home
> > idea, and I get a fatal exception.
>
> D'oh! I've fixed this now. Now it will give you a non-fatal message
> telling you that you haven't set a home idea yet.
Another thing: I went to the "base" of my mind "tree" if you
understand what I mean, and selected "Set home idea". After this, I
got the "You don't have a home idea set" message when I tapped the "H"
button.
> > Other than that, it looks good. Oh, and there should be a Cancel
> > button on the New link form.
>
> I agree here, but there's some behind-the-scenes stuff that makes it
> difficult to do a Cancel button which will do what the user expects.
> When you do New/Link, the new link is created, then the details dialog
> is invoked. I could put a cancel button on the details dialog, which
> would undo the latest editing, but this cancel button would not undo the
> creation of the idea, which is what the user presumably wants. Another
> reason for the lack of a Cancel button is for consistency with the other
> built-in apps, none of which use cancel buttons on their details
> dialogs. I think perhaps a better way to do this is to have the details
> dialog check to see if the target field is blank, and if so to delete
> the idea. This is fairly simple to do and consistent with other apps.
Hmm. Maybe "New/Link" shouldn't invoke the Details dialog, then? Maybe
it would be better to make a separate dialog for "New/Link"?
Also, when you tap "New/Link" it would be useful if the Label field
had a default value set to whatever you used for the Label field last
time you tapped "New/Link".
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